If everybody refused to work more than 8 hours in a day corporations would be forced to accept no more than an 8 hour work day.

If everybody refused to work 7 days in a row no one would ever have to work 7 days without rest. Corporations would be forced to ae work and more pay
without being properly and fairly compensated for such, then corporations would have no choice but to do so if they wanted people to do extra.

If Everybody... etc

If everybody could stand united instead of playing the corporations game of using us against each other by trying to create a dog eat dog atmoshpere
we'd all be better off.

Discuss...

Dunno... I work 21 days on, 10 off. My on days are kinda 10 hour ones that sometimes are 5... sometimes 20. I work 900 miles from my house.

I've no idea why anyone would want to work into a 8 or 6 hour work day... unless you hate what you do, in which case grow a pair and find out what you
like doing.

Of course, your conversation is about working for the man, as it were, so you probably have no concept of having a job that you actually like.

For the sake of discussion, if everyone worked less hours and were pretty much useless, then that's just what I see in today's job market anyways, as
far as employees go.

SoOo.. we offer more for employees that can pass a drug test, show up. Oh!!! And then on time. Then be worth something. It's a hard thing to find,
someone like that.

So feel free to just not work at all so the bad BAD companies say screw it and move their production overseas.

I rarely agree with you, although we are both IA affiliates. (I had the hours but didn't join).
But yes, Unions are a very good thing for workers. Unfortunately they protect the workers they shouldn't as well as those they should. If that could
be solved. . .

Good luck trying to get anyone together to do any of that. The key is, once you figure out that you hate working 40+ hours a week, find a way to do
something on your own where you don’t have to do that.

I haven’t had a *regular* job in almost 10 years. You can either work for your money, or you can figure out how to make your money work for you.

I’m a lazy bastard, so I’ve always searched for the latter, in every situation.

Good luck to everyone that has the fortitude to tough it out and go your own way. It’s a lot harder path to walk, but the benefits are far
greater.

If you don't like working for "The Man" or corporations, work for yourself. I mean, you're excessively smart, right? You are skilled at something
other people want, right? What is preventing you from starting your own business in whatever field you want and take home your own bacon? You are not
required to be a lemming, right? The world is full of stories of people starting a business in their kitchen or garage and making a living. Not that
you'll wind up filthy rich, but at least you'll be making a living and be your own boss. So if you don't want to do the corporate grind, quit! It's
not rocket science.

So who is gonna pay rent for those who financially have to work a crap job for crap pay to survive..

Though I agree with your premis of corporate exploitation ..

Your fix is the most simplistic nonsense ever..

If the majority just actually voted we could fix it, but as long as the only demographic that votes consistently is old people easily propagandized
by the Fox News types. TPTB have just run rough shod over the American workforce.

The whole "If everybody refused to _______" trope would never work for one reason: there will always be somebody willing to do it. You
could conceivably get the majority on board with something like that, but there would be a minority who would realize, "Hey, if I'm willing to
burn my balls and do more than everybody else is doing, then I'll get more than everybody else and be ahead of them." There will always be those
select few go-getters who are willing to go the extra mile and sacrifice their free time in exchange for surplus resources, and employers are
well aware of this. This is kind of the same reason that product boycotts rarely ever punish a company; some people will adhere to it and
refrain from buying the product, but others just simply won't care.

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